Is China trying to protect local businesses from international competition or does Amazon just suck at selling goods in China as Chinese critics claim?:
Amazon says it is curtailing business operations in China, the world’s biggest retail market, after struggling against better entrenched local players for more than a decade.
The company announced recently that as of July 18, it will no longer provide services through its Chinese website, Amazon.cn. The decision means Amazon will stop selling goods from China-based vendors to domestic consumers on the portal. Although it is moving out of the e-retail business in China, Amazon will continue with its cross-border business, bringing foreign brands and goods to China, the company said.
“Their demand for high-quality, authentic goods from around the world continues to grow rapidly, and given our global presence, Amazon is well-positioned to serve them,” the company said.
The announcement has raised questions about the extremely thin presence of foreign companies in internet-related businesses in China, while Chinese companies like Alibaba create market space for themselves across the world.
This cancer in the US will be removed, one #China spy after another. Until we can stabilize the critical situation, we should disengage from China as fast and as completely as we can. This will be unfortunate and will cost our society, but Beijing is leaving us no choice. https://t.co/4AQNDhVNmc
We don't know what #China spends on its military, but we do know Beijing is using the profits from #trade with the #US to expand its military so that it can attack us. Its senior officers publicly express their venomous desire to kill Americans. We're funding our own destruction. https://t.co/QC3QZ97pjx
City of Changchun rolls out propaganda subway train dedicated to the political doctrine of Xi Jinping. The municipal government described the train as a “highly condensed spiritual manual” of “Xi Jinping Thought.” https://t.co/Jc9Nwoap4Vpic.twitter.com/z6LAaFP2N2
Six decades ago the US threatened to use tactical nukes to defend Taiwan’s status. Two decades ago they sent two carrier battle groups. Today, a destroyer and a coast guard cutter. What will they send a decade from now? Very little, I’d wager… https://t.co/kGY0PspGNI
China is trying to send a message against US military patrols in the South China Sea region:
This still from a video broadcast by the state-run China Central Television shows the Chinese military test-firing a DF-26 anti-ship missile during a recent exercise in northwest China.
Analysts gave the DF-26 its foreboding “Guam Killer” nickname for its ability to strike targets 3,400 miles away, which is within range of Andersen Air Force Base. China mobilized the missile after the USS McCampbell guided-missile destroyer on Jan. 7 sailed near the Paracel Islands in a freedom-of-navigation exercise. The Paracels are claimed by China; however, that claim is not recognized by international law. The Thursday CCTV report came the same day the United States sent the McCampbell and fleet replenishment oiler USNS Walter S. Diehl through the Taiwan Strait on a freedom-of-navigation operation. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson has said China should not consider such actions provocative, but Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying on Friday used an analogy to explain Beijing’s discomfort with the passage. “Suppose that a family has two courtyards … divided by a passage which could be used by passersby to come through for convenience’s sake,” Hua said in an official translation of her Friday press conference. “If there is someone who frequents this passage just to issue provocative words or make provocative moves … then how would you feel?”
You can read more at the link, but in regards to the Chinese analogy at the end, the passerby through the courtyard is only making provocative messages because a family forcibly took over a number of courtyards. Additionally the rogue family is looking to take over more courtyards from the friends of the person passing by. The person continuously passing by is a discouragement to that family from trying to take over even more courtyards.
Yesterday Tibet, today Xinjiang, tomorrow the Outer Koguryo Autonomous Zone, I fear. I wish Koreans worried less about Tokdo & more about that Rason lease that should be up for renewal soon. https://t.co/HDe4xa1wxQ
